From: Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Darkening font-lock colors
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:22:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7b501d5c0907301522h554b7f4o3c7f8405d44b926@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d47hoox5.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
2009/7/30 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>:
> While doing some testing, I went back to the default white background,
> and noticed that some of the font-lock colors have rather poor contrast.
> I'm not sure if this is partly due to anti-aliasing, but it sure makes
> the text difficult to read.
>
> What do people think about making the following changes for the
> light-background settings?
>
> font-lock-builtin-face: "LightGray" -> "MediumOrchid4"
> font-lock-constant-face: "CadetBlue" -> "dark cyan"
> font-lock-string-face: "RosyBrown" -> "VioletRed4"
> font-lock-variable-name-face: "DarkGoldenrod" -> "OrangeRed4"
>
> This does not alter the existing color scheme, except for darkening the
> fainter colors. (The dark-background color scheme seems to be fine.)
>
I agree that the current faces are a bit too bright and I'm in favor
of this change. Someone said that the colors become too similar to one
another with this change, but I don't agree. Also, the "problem" of
too similar-looking faces already exists anyways, e.g.
font-lock-preprocessor-face vs. font-lock-builtin-face or
font-lock-doc-face vs. font-lock-string-face. It is more important to
be able to see the actual text than having different faces for
different kinds of text.
As a side note, I don't think many people would even notice this
change unless they were explicitly told about it.
--
Deniz Dogan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-30 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-30 21:12 Darkening font-lock colors Chong Yidong
2009-07-30 21:39 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-07-30 21:51 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-30 22:00 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-30 21:57 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-30 22:21 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-07-30 23:40 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-31 0:18 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-31 0:55 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-31 3:01 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-31 15:39 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-02 20:22 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-02 22:36 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-02 22:40 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-03 0:16 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-03 1:09 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-10 0:14 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-10 2:37 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-10 3:28 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-10 23:56 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-03 2:14 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-08-03 2:28 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-03 4:34 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-08-03 5:13 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-03 5:22 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-03 9:54 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-03 11:58 ` Daniel Clemente
2009-08-03 13:49 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-03 23:32 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-03 23:46 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-03 13:59 ` joakim
2009-08-03 20:42 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-08-08 20:56 ` Color themes (was: Darkening font-lock colors) Juri Linkov
2009-08-08 21:16 ` Color themes joakim
2009-08-09 3:04 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-09 4:28 ` Leo
2009-08-09 16:18 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-09 17:28 ` CHENG Gao
2009-08-09 18:05 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-09 18:51 ` joakim
2009-08-10 9:12 ` Leo
2009-08-10 23:48 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-11 1:32 ` Leo
2009-08-11 3:58 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-11 4:26 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-11 5:52 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-11 5:52 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-11 8:59 ` Leo
2009-08-11 18:21 ` ferkiwi
2009-08-03 20:01 ` Darkening font-lock colors Lennart Borgman
2009-08-03 22:40 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-03 22:57 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-03 23:54 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-04 0:10 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-04 0:16 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-04 21:27 ` Johan Bockgård
2009-08-04 23:16 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-03 23:27 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-03 23:42 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-31 0:55 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-31 2:39 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-03 0:17 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-03 3:44 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-03 9:59 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-03 12:34 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-03 14:21 ` Stephen Eilert
2009-08-03 21:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-03 23:02 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-04 8:27 ` Romain Francoise
2009-08-04 8:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-04 22:44 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-03 23:32 ` Juri Linkov
2009-07-31 0:46 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-30 21:41 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-30 22:22 ` Deniz Dogan [this message]
2009-07-31 1:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-31 3:54 ` tomas
2009-08-04 22:14 ` Juri Linkov
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-08-03 9:35 Angelo Graziosi
2009-08-03 20:42 Francesc Rocher
2009-08-04 0:16 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-04 0:21 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-10 14:15 grischka
2009-08-10 23:57 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-11 16:07 ` grischka
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